reminds me of a time when I was hiking in South Dakota down this hidden obscure, difficult trail and I found a sudden section where all the trees had been clear-cut down to just the stumps. Someone or a group had come through a stacked literally hundreds of these boulder formations on top of ALL the stumps. I love finding these things.

In reference the "calming down" I can imagine trying to make these things would have the exact OPPOSITE effect on me...

>> ^quantumushroom:

Sigh. Do you really want to go toe-to-toe, STINK?
Here's Barack, the clown YOUR sycophantic media elected.
Palin said "Squirmish?" Got it. Izzat anything like BHO's CORPSE-MAN?

“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.” --BHO

“Thank you, Sioux City. … I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.” -- said in front of Sioux Falls, SOUTH DAKOTA audience

“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.”
---May 2007 speech. Actual death toll: 12.

A "few" other gaffes here.

"In their first meeting, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave Obama a carved ornamental penholder from the timbers of the anti-slavery ship HMS Gannet. Obama’s gift in return: 25 DVDs that don't work in Europe. His gift a month later to Queen Elizabeth doesn’t quite make up for the snub, either: an iPod full of his own speeches."

"The Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: 'Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”

Minus the fibs, I couldn't care less if Barack steps on his Telepromptongue now and again. It's the whole inexperienced-total-failure-as-President part that bothers me.
PALIN/FIRE HYDRANT 2012


http://politicalhumor.about.com/cs/georgewbush/a/top10bushisms.htm

People make mistakes. Sucks being human doesn't it?

Sigh. Do you really want to go toe-to-toe, STINK?

Here's Barack, the clown YOUR sycophantic media elected.

Palin said "Squirmish?" Got it. Izzat anything like BHO's CORPSE-MAN?


“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.” --BHO


“Thank you, Sioux City. … I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.” -- said in front of Sioux Falls, SOUTH DAKOTA audience


“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.”

---May 2007 speech. Actual death toll: 12.


A "few" other gaffes here.


"In their first meeting, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave Obama a carved ornamental penholder from the timbers of the anti-slavery ship HMS Gannet. Obama’s gift in return: 25 DVDs that don't work in Europe. His gift a month later to Queen Elizabeth doesn’t quite make up for the snub, either: an iPod full of his own speeches."


"The Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: 'Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”


Minus the fibs, I couldn't care less if Barack steps on his Telepromptongue now and again. It's the whole inexperienced-total-failure-as-President part that bothers me.

PALIN/FIRE HYDRANT 2012

Rank↓ State↓ 2009↓ 2008↓ 2007↓ 2004-2006↓
1 Maryland $79,272 $78,454 $78,725 $77,985
2 New Jersey $68,342 $70,378 $67,035 $64,169
3 Connecticut $67,034 $68,595 $65,967 $59,972
4 Alaska $66,953 $68,460 $64,333 $57,639
5 Hawaii $64,098 $67,214 $63,746 $60,681
6 Massachusetts $64,081 $65,401 $62,365 $56,236
7 New Hampshire $60,567 $63,731 $62,369 $60,489
8 Virginia $59,330 $61,233 $59,562 $55,108
District of Columbia $59,290 $57,936 $54,317 $47,221 (2005)[3]PDF
9 California $58,931 $61,021 $59,948 $53,770
10 Delaware $56,860 $57,989 $54,610 $52,214
11 Washington $56,548 $58,078 $55,591 $53,439
12 Minnesota $55,616 $57,288 $55,082 $57,363
13 Colorado $55,430 $56,993 $55,212 $54,039
14 Utah $55,117 $56,633 $55,109 $55,179
15 New York $54,659 $56,033 $53,514 $48,201
16 Rhode Island $54,119 $55,701 $53,568 $52,003
17 Illinois $53,966 $56,235 $54,124 $49,280
18 Nevada $53,341 $56,361 $55,062 $50,819
19 Wyoming $52,664 $53,207 $51,731 $47,227
20 Vermont $51,618 $52,104 $49,907 $51,622
United States $50,221 $52,029 $50,740 $46,242 (2005) [4]PDF
21 Wisconsin $49,993 $52,094 $50,578 $48,874
22 Pennsylvania $49,520 $50,713 $48,576 $47,791
23 Arizona $48,745 $50,958 $49,889 $46,729
24 Oregon $48,457 $50,169 $48,730 $45,485
25 Texas $48,259 $50,043 $47,548 $43,425
26 Iowa $48,044 $48,980 $47,292 $47,489
27 North Dakota $47,827 $45,685 $43,753 $43,753
28 Kansas $47,817 $50,177 $47,451 $44,264
29 Georgia $47,590 $50,861 $49,136 $46,841
30 Nebraska $47,357 $49,693 $47,085 $48,126
31 Maine $45,734 $46,581 $45,888 $45,040
32 Indiana $45,424 $47,966 $47,448 $44,806
33 Ohio $45,395 $47,988 $46,597 $45,837
34 Michigan $45,255 $48,591 $47,950 $47,064
35 Missouri $45,229 $46,867 $45,114 $44,651
36 South Dakota $45,043 $46,032 $43,424 $44,624
37 Idaho $44,926 $47,576 $46,253 $46,395
38 Florida $44,736 $47,778 $47,804 $44,448
39 North Carolina $43,674 $46,549 $44,670 $42,061
40 New Mexico $43,028 $43,508 $41,452 $40,827
41 Louisiana $42,492 $43,733 $40,926 $37,943
42 South Carolina $42,442 $44,625 $43,329 $40,822
43 Montana $42,322 $43,654 $43,531 $38,629
44 Tennessee $41,725 $43,614 $42,367 $40,676
45 Oklahoma $41,664 $42,822 $41,567 $40,001
46 Alabama $40,489 $42,666 $40,554 $38,473
47 Kentucky $40,072 $41,538 $40,267 $38,466
48 Arkansas $37,823 $38,815 $38,134 $37,420
49 West Virginia $37,435 $37,989 $37,060 $37,227
50 Mississippi $36,646 $37,790 $36,338 $35,261
Puerto Rico $17,500 $17,000

>> ^blankfist:
The state has no obligation to protect you or treat you. If a cop watched a murder happening in front of him and decided to do nothing, that's just too bad isn't it? That's a great service you're forced to pay for there.


This is not black and white, ambulances were dispatched and could not make it through the snow. The only issue is if there was a policy regarding leaving the ambulance on foot in a life or death situation.

Blankfist, don't confuse police with 911, they are completely separate, and some municipalities (not monolithic state) don't even offer 911 (areas in South Dakota come to mind) because they don't want to charge/pay for it. Freedom!

Regarding your claim regarding police protection: This is completely untrue. The court ruling you cite only confirms that the police have discretion when it comes to ARREST, it says nothing of their responsibility when witnessing a crime (the officers in that case wrongly determined that there was no danger, but that mistaken determination wasn't criminal)

Regarding the supreme court: don't confuse civil liability with the policies of the 911 or police system in question. Are there mistakes, yes. Is policy always followed? No. Are all mistakes and violations of policy grounds for lawsuits? Absolutely not. The supreme courts focus is on fundamental rights granted by the constitution, due process and such, if those are not violated in the grounds of the case you are referring too (and the closely related child abuse case).

This event should NOT be used as anti-government propaganda, it doesn't even involve the federal or state governments, this is a local issue. If there is local outrage, then policies need to change and maybe more money needs to be spent on the emergency response system. I'm sure people die like this all the time in states with little or no emergency response and no one complains because they choose NOT to pay for such a system and the put responsibility in the hands of the individual to get to the hospital.

Comments from LiveLeak:


Raw Video: TV crew spots Daschle pushing car down DC street in snow storm


While FOX 5 was busy covering the start of the Blizzard of 2010 in D.C. on Friday night, our reporters came across a number of stranded vehicles—but one stood out from the rest.

As reporter Matt Ackland and his photographer Nelson Jones were driving down Wisconsin Avenue in Upper Northwest D.C. while they were live on the air, they spotted a man trying to push his car out of the snow. When they stopped to help—live on the air—they found that it was none other than former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle.

Daschle's car was stuck along the roadway, but Jones hopped out to help him push.

Of course, D.C. officials have been urging residents not to venture out onto the road in the treacherous conditions, but apparently Daschle had somewhere to be. There's no word on where he was headed.

btw, here is the 10th amendment

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

And yet more random stuff:

"As of August 2009, 37 states have introduced resolutions in support of "state sovereignty" under the 10th Amendment. In seven states the resolutions passed (Alaska, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Tennessee).
Further, two states (Montana and Tennessee) have passed specific legislation exempting residents from certain federal firearms regulations, while Arizona has a proposed constitutional amendment (to be voted on in 2010) which would nullify a national health care system from operating in the state"

OK. I did "learn more". Patients United Now was launched by a conservative group called American for Prosperity.

From wiki:
In 2003, an internal rift between Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) and its affiliated Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation led to a split in which the latter organization was renamed as a separate organization, called Americans for Prosperity.

Its foundation's chair and founder is David Koch of Koch Industries, which runs oil refining and pipeline companies. Another Americans for Prosperity Foundation board member is Richard Fink, a Koch executive who serves as a director of the refining subsidiary. Fink helps control AFP's purse strings. He is president of the Koch-affiliated Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, which gave AFP's foundation $2.2 million from 2005-06, according to the Foundation Center.

On February 27, 2009, in collaboration with others, the organization sponsored a Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and Washington, D.C. Tea party protest.

AFP aims to promote a sound economic policy that supports business and regulatory restraint by government, according to its literature. This organization leans conservative. AFP opposed the $787 billion stimulus package for economic recovery.

The organization has chapters in 22 of the 50 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Americans for Prosperity is led by Tim Phillips, who was a former partner with Ralph Reed's Century Strategies. That organization became well-known when it was revealed in a Senate investigation that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff was laundering money through Century Strategies and Americans for Tax Reform to oppose legislation that his Indian tribe clients wanted to defeat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity#Patients_United_Now

HEAVY emphasis on the LIES channel!

For you guys to defend murder is outrageous and unbelievable.

"It's like hunting season in South Dakota!!"
"I am no longer a Yankee--I earned my wings!!"
-- Some quotes in the film

These people celebrate their kills.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
Why is it that whenever there's a depiction of Armageddon, they ALWAYS show New York City getting blown to shit? Why can't they show Mitchell, South Dakota getting blowed up? Surely the sight of the mighty Corn Palace going up in flames would strike fear in the heart of the most hardened atheist.


Why do they have to show ANYWHERE in the USA? I mean really... it's as if Everything happens just in the US.

Which, if it's Armageddon, is fine by me, it can be confined to the US...

Why is it that whenever there's a depiction of Armageddon, they ALWAYS show New York City getting blown to shit? Why can't they show Mitchell, South Dakota getting blowed up? Surely the sight of the mighty Corn Palace going up in flames would strike fear in the heart of the most hardened atheist.

If you're wondering why certain places are devoid of Wal-Mart stores, it's probably because those areas are the Rocky Mountains, the Nevada desert, the corn fields of South Dakota, and nearly all of Montana.

These places are devoid of humans, and thus, they are not suitable for the virus.

Edit: Fuck Wal-Mart.

Fucking pro-lifers.

I'll wait until you're at 99 votes. I don't want KP to upvote his own sockpuppet into 100 star status.

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haha too late
http://www.videosift.com/video/Abortion-Ban-In-South-Dakota
feels good don't it? I have two sift talk posts that aren't qualitied yet...

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
...so I won't go vote for your videos.

In reply to this comment by burdturgler:
I know... I suck!
Go vote for my vids! Or the terrorists win.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
You haven't gotten your 100 star yet? Slowpoke.

This makes me glad I didn't spend my formative years in South Dakota. I'm actually against abortion, but I still think it should be a right for women to decide what to do with their bodies. I hate how Midwestern SD is, even though it's near Canada.

haha too late
http://www.videosift.com/video/Abortion-Ban-In-South-Dakota
feels good don't it? I have two sift talk posts that aren't qualitied yet...

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
...so I won't go vote for your videos.

In reply to this comment by burdturgler:
I know... I suck!
Go vote for my vids! Or the terrorists win.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
You haven't gotten your 100 star yet? Slowpoke.